The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-26

cular ws from lumberman in Maine. to be
No II gauge which is nearly as thin saw as
their band saws.
The Pioneer brass works have recently in
creased their force to meet their increase in
business. The works are now doing good deal
OF work for the Jenney Electric-light Company
and the Metallic Packing Company.
Evans & Richardson and Blanton & Watson
making arrangements to build additions to
their Touring mills they selecting the present
time to make such improvements, difficult is
it to get wheat and SO quiet is the flour market.
The Indianapolis starch works have completed
the additions to their mandatory, and now
have of the largest establishments of the
class in this country The works will require
1000 bushels of corn per day to keep them run
ming.
III. Barnard has purchased one-fourth of q
square of ground OF Alabama street. just south
of the Big Four tracks, inclosed it with a high
fence and built large storehouse, and will en-
gage in the buying of old junk, metals and rags
extensive scale
Spiegel & Thoms have just completed exter-
sive improvements to their storeroom on West
Washington streets. At their shops they are
working full handed and full time for the
first time in many months. They are pushing
thipgs to enable them &c fill orders promptly.
The Palmerton Wrecking-frog and Railway
Supply Company are getting matters in shape
to do big business. Within the last week they
have shipped wrecking frogs to the New York
O6utrdi, the IenuSyttAnl6 company, Tue AtCni-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Terre Haute &
Indianapolis roads,
Haugh q Co. have increased their force to 225
men, pressed they with work. In some
departments the men are making time to
nable the company to fill large contract they
have in Kansas City. The company forfeit 500
per day for any time required to do the work
after the day the award says it is to be COM
pleted.
The shipments from the Indianapolis distribut-
ing house of the Oliver chilled plow works have
exceeded this year those of last year fully rs
cent. This establishment is now giving employ
ment to 1000 men at their mandatory In South
Bend. For years past they have been shipping
their plows to Cuba and Australia, and now they
have put salesman in South America.
| W. II. Coleman, manufacturer Of slaves and
| heading. whose establishment is on the Belt
! road, is said to be one of the largest manufact-
/ urers OF this description of goods in the United
! States. His field extends from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, and there is seldom month in
which he does not ship some of his work to q
majority of the larger cities in the country.
The report that the Woodburn-S avern wheel
works was to reduce their number of employees,
owing to the burdensome rates the new law i'm
posed OH the shipments of their material in the
rough is without foundation. Now that rates
are becoming understood the advance is rot &c
/ serious as has been feared, and these works will
increase rather than cut down their working
| force.
! 0. II. Castle. of this city, has recently pat
ented an automatic steam engine It is without
steam gauges, eccentric valves, having bu
| eight moving pieces. 1t is quite novelty. anc
the claim is made that it will use less steam thar
any engine in the market. Twentytw of these
engines have been sold since u. w. Lutz, OF
this city, began making them, less than foul
| months ago.
There are now twenty-five bricky ards in full
operation, and within the next week brick o
this years manufacture will be the market
| Last years stock is already exhausted, and som,
of the yards now have so many orders that the,
| are obliged to decline to take any more. The
brick men say that more brick will be made fo
and laid in walls at Indianapolis this year thar
in any year in the history of the city, judeius
from the present demand. Prices are very firm
but as vet have not been materially advanced
and will not be should the mon employed at thu
yards continue to work at their present wages
Some of the brc1-makers troubled to keel
their forces in complete working order SO grea
is the demand for brick makers at other points
Some of the yards working eighty to ninet
men.